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Allen Jackson - Trouble and Triumph (Part 2)

May 3, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Trouble and Triumph (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Trouble and Triumph (Part 2) | May 3, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: one of my heroes in the bible is saul of tarsus.
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  • He becomes the apostle paul.
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  • I know you know his story.
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  • He's written two-thirds of our new testament by title, and one
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  • Of the most remarkable characters we meet in all of
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  • The scripture.
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  • He was a pharisee with a remarkable education, brilliant
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  • Mind, and he hated jesus and jesus's followers until he met
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  • Jesus one day.
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  • He's on the road to damascus, and jesus interrupts his life,
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  • And he becomes the apostle paul, one of the most powerful voices
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  • For jesus that history has ever known.
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  • We put together a 90-day devotional.
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  • It's "lessons from paul."
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  • I'm still learning from paul, and i just wanted to share it
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  • With you.
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  • There's a little--there's a scripture verse, there's a bit
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  • Of a devotional, there's a place for some journaling.
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  • It's really intended to provide some direction so that you and i
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  • Become overcomers, overcomers of our past, overcomers of the
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  • Opposition in the present.
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  • Doesn't matter what the adversary is, the power of god
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  • That delivered paul, he'll deliver you and me.
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  • I believe you'll enjoy "lessons from paul."
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  • Allen: at the end of jeremiah's or nearing the end of jeremiah's
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  • Ministry, the babylonians arrive, and it's a brutal,
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  • Brutal time.
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  • And it's god's doing.
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  • It's god's judgment on his covenant people.
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  • He hasn't rejected them.
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  • He's disciplining them.
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  • We'll do discipline in another session, but i brought you just
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  • A window into the discipline.
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  • It's so horrible.
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  • It's difficult to imagine, but if i described it to you, i
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  • Wasn't sure you would believe me.
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  • It's jeremiah 52, "the babylonian army pursued king
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  • Zedekiah, and they overtook him in the plains of jericho.
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  • His soldiers separated from him," they fled from him.
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  • "and he was taken to the king of babylon where he pronounced
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  • Sentence on him.
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  • And there the king of babylon slaughtered the sons of zedekiah
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  • Before his eyes; and he killed all the officials of judah.
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  • And then he put out zedekiah's eyes, and he bound him with
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  • Bronze shackles and he took him to babylon, where he put him in
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  • Prison all of his days until his death."
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  • Now, i'm not suggesting that's your future.
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  • I'm suggesting to you that the ministry god gave jeremiah to
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  • Preside over was a very, very difficult season.
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  • Could we agree on that?
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  • It's almost beyond comprehension.
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  • But i don't want you to miss the next part.
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  • Through the brutality and the horror of the judgment of god,
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  • God made provision for jeremiah.
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  • He took care of him.
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  • He delivered him from enemy after enemy.
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  • I just gave you a very brief snapshot of the brutality with
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  • Which the babylonians treated the jews when they came
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  • To jerusalem.
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  • Now, i want to read you a contrasting passage in jeremiah
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  • 40, "the word came to jeremiah from the lord after bill, the
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  • Commander of the imperial guard--"
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  • Wouldn't it be easier if all those old biblical names are
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  • Like bill and pete and sam?
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  • You know, when i read my bible, i write in names that are easier
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  • To pronounce because i don't want to miss the message.
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  • So, "bill, the commander of the imperial guard,
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  • Had him released.
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  • And he found jeremiah bound in chains amongst the captives from
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  • Jerusalem and judah who were being carried into exile.
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  • And when the commander of the guard found jeremiah, he said to
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  • Him, 'the lord your god decreed this disaster for this place.
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  • And now the lord has brought it about; he's done just as he said
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  • He would.
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  • All this happened because you people sinned against the lord
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  • And you didn't obey him.
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  • But today i'm freeing you from the chains on your wrists.
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  • You can come with me to babylon, if you'd like, and i'll look
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  • After you; but if you don't want to, then you don't have to come.
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  • The whole country lies before you; go wherever you please.'"
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  • While the horrors are being visited on the population of
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  • Jerusalem, jeremiah, who has honored the lord, and he's not
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  • The only one.
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  • But the message to jeremiah through the commander of the
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  • Imperial guard is, "if you wanna come with me, i'll watch
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  • Over you.
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  • If you don't want to go with me, you can stay here and do
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  • Whatever you would like."
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  • Is it safe to say god protected jeremiah?
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  • He made provision for him.
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  • I didn't bring you all the passages.
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  • Other leaders gave him gifts.
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  • They made provision for him.
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  • In the midst of horror and death and destruction and terror, god
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  • Made a pathway for jeremiah.
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  • I came to give you good news.
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  • It didn't originate with me.
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  • We read it in luke 21.
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  • Jesus said, "when you see these fearsome things happening in the
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  • Earth, lift up your head.
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  • Your redemption draws near."
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  • He didn't say, "go find a cave."
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  • He didn't say, "bury--burrow beneath the surface of
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  • The earth."
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  • He didn't say, "be filled with terror and dread."
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  • Peter said, "listen, when you're bullied, shake it off."
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  • There's some difficult days between here and the return of
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  • The king, but god will lead us through.
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  • He will watch over us.
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  • I receive questions almost every week from people in the
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  • Community and beyond.
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  • This is, you know, "pastor, what will we do as we approach the
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  • End of the age and the rise of darkness?"
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  • And they've got little prophetic passages that are familiar with
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  • Them and the questions are okay with me, but i don't want to
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  • Stay focused on what the adversary is going to do.
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  • We've got a kingdom assignment.
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  • We've got good news to be delivered in this generation.
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  • We have greater freedoms and liberties and opportunities and
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  • Technology than any group of people that have ever lived on
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  • The planet, and we have the authority of our king and the
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  • Help of the angels and the power of the holy spirit, our guide
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  • And comforter and teacher.
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  • Let's focus on what god is doing.
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  • I'll give you another example from scripture.
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  • I just brought one verse.
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  • Daniel is one of my heroes in the hebrew bible.
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  • Daniel lived the majority of his life as a slave in babylon.
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  • He was mutilated physically.
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  • He served as a courtier.
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  • He served in the royal court, but god used him in a
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  • Mighty way.
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  • And before the end of daniel's life, if you've read the book on
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  • Multiple occasions, god sent angels to daniel to say, "you
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  • Are highly esteemed in heaven."
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  • Do you know why he needed an angel to tell him that?
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  • Because he didn't feel highly esteemed.
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  • I don't believe god wastes words.
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  • And when the bible says not to become weary in doing good, do
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  • You know why it says that?
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  • Because some days i get tired of doing good.
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  • Don't you?
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  • I don't even like yield signs on the highway, right?
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  • When i see a yield sign, what i really think they mean to say to
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  • Me is, "if you'll hurry, the other people can yield."
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  • So, when god sends a messenger to daniel to say, "you are
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  • Highly esteemed in heaven," it's because i suspect he did not
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  • Feel highly esteemed in babylon.
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  • But at the very beginning of daniel's story, in daniel
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  • Chapter 1, it says of daniel and his three friends, that god gave
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  • Knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature
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  • And learning.
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  • And daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.
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  • It says god gave that to them.
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  • It doesn't say that they spent weeks and weeks locked up in
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  • A library.
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  • It doesn't say that they spent all of their time on ai asking
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  • It difficult questions and memorizing the answers.
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  • It says that god gave to them some unique gifts that enabled
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  • Them to flourish even though they were slaves in a
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  • Foreign country.
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  • If you'll allow me, i would submit to you that god will give
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  • Us the gifts and abilities we need to flourish and to see his
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  • Purposes come forth, no matter what comes to the earth.
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  • That our future is not secured by the united states government
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  • Or the strength of the dollar or the stability of whatever.
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  • I'm grateful for all of those things, they have provided some
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  • Unique blessings to us, but they don't define our future, the
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  • Authority of our god does.
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  • We serve at his pleasure.
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  • We are ambassadors for his kingdom.
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  • And whatever comes on the earth, if you have given your heart to
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  • Him and will honor him, he will lead you through.
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  • In acts chapter 23, there's a statement made about the
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  • Apostle paul.
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  • Paul is in jerusalem, and he's been arrested.
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  • He's been falsely accused.
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  • There's an angry mob in the temple area.
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  • There's a large crowd gathered there.
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  • It's festival time in jerusalem, and a large crowd has gathered
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  • And there's lies that have been circulated about paul, and
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  • There's an angry mob that has gathered, they're trying to kill
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  • Him in public.
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  • And the roman commanders see it, and they come into the crowd to
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  • Stop the riot.
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  • And they come for the apostle paul and they take him into
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  • Roman custody, and that's where your notes come in.
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  • It's acts 23:10, "the dispute became so violent that the
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  • Commander was afraid paul would be torn to pieces.
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  • So he ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them
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  • By force and to bring him into the barracks."
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  • The next sentence is the amazing one.
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  • "the following night the lord stood near paul,"
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  • And said "bless your heart, i'm so sorry."
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  • "the lord stood near to paul and said, 'take courage!
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  • As you've testified about me in jerusalem, so you must also
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  • Testify in rome.'"
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  • Who stood near paul?
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  • The lord did.
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  • The last time we saw jesus in jerusalem in public, he was
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  • Hanging on a roman cross.
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  • But he comes into the roman barracks.
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  • Folks, this is the location where the troops had taken him
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  • And blindfolded him and crushed a crown of thorns on his head
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  • And hit him over the head time and again and said, "if you're
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  • The son of god, tell us who hit you."
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  • Jesus is back in the praetorium, but he's not defeated.
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  • He comes to see paul.
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  • Are you kidding me?
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  • Why did paul need jesus to come?
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  • Is it safe to say it might have been a low moment?
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  • I think so.
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  • And jesus came and stood near to him.
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  • And what was the first thing he said?
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  • "take courage!
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  • Be encouraged.
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  • Be encouraged.
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  • Paul, be encouraged when you're arrested by the romans.
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  • Be encouraged when an angry mob of your own people wanted to
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  • Murder you.
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  • Be encouraged when the circumstances
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  • Aren't encouraging.
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  • Paul, be encouraged.
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  • Have courage."
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  • To be encouraged means to have courage.
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  • To be discouraged, that little prefix, dis-,
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  • Means to be without.
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  • To be discouraged is to be without courage.
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  • "paul, i need you to have courage because you're going to
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  • Have to testify for me in rome."
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  • It's going to take him two years to get to rome.
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  • He's going to need to remember the night
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  • Jesus stood next to him.
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  • [music]
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  • Allen: "lessons from paul" is a 90-day devotional, some of my
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  • Favorite verses that paul wrote, a bit of devotional time and
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  • Then some place to journal.
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  • The goal is to be changed.
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  • We wanna be transformed by the word of god and not just
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  • Informed by it.
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  • Saul of tarsus, a hero of mine, i got to know him as the apostle
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  • Paul, an unrelenting advocate for jesus in the face of
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  • Unyielding persecution.
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  • Folks, that sounds like the world we live in.
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  • "lessons from paul," it'll help you and i be overcomers,
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  • Triumphant in this season in the earth.
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  • You'll enjoy the book.
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  • Announcer: following jesus isn't always easy, but you don't have
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  • To walk through it alone.
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  • The same power that transformed paul is available to you today.
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  • "lessons from paul" by pastor allen is a 90-day devotional
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  • Filled with scripture, encouragement, and journaling
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  • Prompts, and space to write, helping you apply each day's
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  • Reading to your actual life.
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  • Request your copy with your gift of $25 or more at
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  • Allenjackson.com or call...
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  • Allen: years and years ago someone said to me, "allen, when
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  • You get remarkable direction and guidance, it's because you will
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  • Need it."
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  • At that point i began to say, "i'm really good with a still
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  • Small voice.
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  • I want to be sensitive to the gentle nudges of the spirit
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  • Of god.
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  • I don't want god to have to shout at me."
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  • "be encouraged, paul."
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  • God will provide what you need to complete the course that he
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  • Invites you to.
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  • The book of hebrews says he's the author and the completer of
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  • Your story.
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  • And you may say, "i don't like this chapter."
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  • Keep reading.
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  • You may say, "i don't like this valley."
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  • Then don't camp there.
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  • Sometimes when there's discouragement and heartbreak
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  • And brokenness, we build a monument and stay in that place.
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  • Please don't do that.
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  • Say, "god, i will keep moving."
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  • The babylonians may have destroyed jerusalem, but
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  • Jeremiah sent money from a cistern and said, "buy me a
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  • Piece of property.
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  • We're coming back."
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  • Jeremiah was investing in real estate while the babylonians
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  • Were destroying the city.
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  • God will lead you through.
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  • God will lead you through.
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  • "well, why do i have to--"
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  • I don't know.
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  • I can't always answer the why questions.
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  • Some of those we'll have to wait for heaven to get the
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  • Answers to.
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  • But i came with a biblical perspective.
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  • There are some unsettled seasons ahead of us, but god will lead
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  • Us through.
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  • He will make provision for whatever we need.
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  • Set your heart on him.
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  • Give him first place.
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  • If you've been a casual christian, if you've been an
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  • Indifferent christ follower, if your spiritual life has been
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  • Defined by ambivalence, then begin to say to the lord, "lord,
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  • I'm sorry.
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  • I want to be different.
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  • I want to serve you with my whole heart, mind, soul,
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  • And body."
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  • You will need that maturity for the season that is ahead of you.
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  • When i talked to gabe on monday, one of the revelations he had
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  • When he was in heaven was he said the prayers of god's people
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  • Are present in heaven.
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  • He said there are bowls and bowls of the prayers of
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  • God's people.
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  • And he said, "when i saw the prayers," he said, "they looked
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  • Like blocks.
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  • As if something could be constructed from them."
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  • And i was reminded of the verse in revelation where john saw the
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  • Throne of heaven.
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  • It's in revelation 5, i put it in your notes, but he saw the
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  • Prayers of god's people in golden bowls.
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  • But i was intrigued by what josh said.
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  • He said they looked like blocks, and i began to think about my
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  • Own prayer life.
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  • If my prayers were converted to blocks, would i have enough
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  • Blocks to build a lean-to?
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  • Would i have enough blocks to build a one-room shelter?
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  • Would i have enough blocks for a mansion?
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  • Just how committed have i been to prayer?
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  • And i thought, "well, it varies, but i bet i could give more
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  • Attention to it."
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  • I've given more attention to it all week.
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  • I was out early this morning walking through the fields,
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  • Talking to the lord because i want to be certain that there's
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  • Bowls filled with allen's prayers.
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  • I would invite you to the same.
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  • Don't say i don't know how to pray.
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  • Talk to the lord.
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  • Tell him what's in your heart.
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  • Prayer is not about a tone of voice or a theological degree.
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  • Have you ever met somebody when they pray, their voice changes?
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  • You know if you meet him at the store or the restaurant they
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  • Go, "hey."
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  • And when it's time to pray, it's, "o god."
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  • Don't do that.
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  • I think even god would be shocked.
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  • Who's he talking to?
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  • Talk to the lord about what's in your heart.
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  • If you're afraid, tell him.
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  • If you've been indifferent about him, tell him.
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  • If you've been angry with him or resentful of him because of the
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  • Hardness of the season, tell him.
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  • Take time to say thank you to him, that he's revealed himself
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  • To you, that you have access to the word of god, that you can
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  • Gather with other believers in public without fear of reprisal.
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  • Be certain to be thankful with more energy than you present
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  • Your requests.
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  • The bible says we enter into his gates with thanksgiving.
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  • It's not wrong to make your--present your request to
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  • The lord.
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  • We're given permission to do that.
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  • But don't be the one that always has a request and is
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  • Never grateful.
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  • Those people are annoying.
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  • You know some.
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  • Some of you--never mind.
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  • But begin to pray, talk to the lord every day.
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  • If you've gone all day long and you haven't talked to the lord
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  • And your head hits the pillow in the night, get out of bed and
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  • Kneel and say, "god, i'm sorry i missed you today.
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  • Thanks for the day.
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  • I'll see you in the morning."
  • 00:19:51.606 --> 00:19:55.743
  • But begin to pray.
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  • Let those bowls be filled with the blocks of your prayers so
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  • There's something for god to respond to.
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  • In fact, i want to close.
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  • I brought you a proclamation.
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  • It's not complicated.
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  • I took it from two passages of scripture.
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  • The first is revelation 5. i already mentioned it.
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  • It's the passage where we see the bowls of the prayers of the
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  • People of god that are collected in heaven.
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  • And when those prayers are offered, it says that all of
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  • Those in the presence of the throne of god knelt down and
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  • Begin to cry out to the lord, singing a new song that, "you're
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  • Worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were
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  • Slain and with your blood, you purchased men for god from
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  • Every tribe."
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  • Folks, when we see the lord, the praises of god will break forth
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  • From within us.
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  • Let's not wait until that point.
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  • Let's begin now to proclaim the goodness of our lord in
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  • The earth.
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  • Let's give our voice and our strength and our energy to
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  • Honoring the lord and giving glory to him.
  • 00:21:02.576 --> 00:21:06.080
  • So, i gave you two passages.
  • 00:21:06.080 --> 00:21:07.481
  • The first is the next two verses from revelation 5.
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  • It's verses 12 and 13.
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  • I'm gonna read them to you, and then in a minute, i'm gonna ask
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  • You to say them with me in your best outdoor voice.
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  • We want the people driving by to hear them.
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  • They want us to hear them, we want them to hear us.
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  • "worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive power and
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  • Wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!
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  • And to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise
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  • And honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!"
  • 00:21:44.251 --> 00:21:51.359
  • And then from hebrews 13, "because god has said, 'never
  • 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:55.429
  • Will i leave you; and never will i forsake you.'
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  • So we say with confidence, 'the lord is my helper; i will not
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  • Be afraid.
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  • What can man do to me?'"
  • 00:22:05.973 --> 00:22:09.410
  • Now, what i want to invite you to do is begin to say those
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  • Verses over your life and over your family and over your home
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  • And over your place of employment and over your
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  • Neighborhood and over your community and over your state
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  • And over our nation and over the nations of the world.
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  • Let's let the word of god resonate from our lips to
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  • Express his authority in this earth, amen?
  • 00:22:36.103 --> 00:22:43.110
  • We have been timid for too long.
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  • We've been afraid for too long.
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  • For too long we've said, "well, is it okay for us to say
  • 00:22:51.252 --> 00:22:54.054
  • Jesus here?"
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  • Folks, if we're there, we should be talking about jesus.
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  • I don't intend to go any place where i can't talk about jesus,
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  • And i hope you don't either.
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  • I want you to stand with me if you will.
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  • We're going to make this proclamation together.
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  • There's more than 70 people being baptized tonight.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Allen: we asked the children to have completed the second grade,
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  • But we have children all the way to someone who's 90.
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  • So, i don't know what your excuse is for not getting in the
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  • Pool, but i think i just blew it up.
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  • What a privilege we have to live in a generation when the
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  • Purposes of god are coming to a completion, when we get to see
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  • God stirring nations and moving people in a way unprecedented in
  • 00:23:51.679 --> 00:23:56.984
  • Human history.
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  • God called our names to be a part of this generation.
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  • This is our watch.
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  • We will not relent.
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  • We will not stop.
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  • We will not back up.
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  • You ready for your proclamation?
  • 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:16.003
  • Let's say it together.
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  • If you didn't get an outline, maybe somebody near you
  • 00:24:17.338 --> 00:24:19.006
  • Will share.
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  • We're outdoors.
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  • Please don't whisper.
  • 00:24:21.976 --> 00:24:24.245
  • "worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive power and
  • 00:24:24.245 --> 00:24:29.283
  • Wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!
  • 00:24:29.283 --> 00:24:35.956
  • And to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be
  • 00:24:35.956 --> 00:24:40.394
  • Praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!"
  • 00:24:40.394 --> 00:24:47.134
  • "because god has said, 'never will i leave you; never will i
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  • Forsake you.'
  • 00:24:52.606 --> 00:24:54.308
  • So we say with confidence, 'the lord is my helper; i will not
  • 00:24:54.308 --> 00:25:00.080
  • Be afraid.
  • 00:25:00.080 --> 00:25:01.515
  • What can man do to me?'"
  • 00:25:01.515 --> 00:25:03.817
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:25:04.785 --> 00:25:07.388
  • Allen: we better read those verses from hebrews again.
  • 00:25:07.388 --> 00:25:11.358
  • Come on, "because god has said, 'never will i leave you; never
  • 00:25:11.358 --> 00:25:16.964
  • Will i forsake you.'
  • 00:25:16.964 --> 00:25:18.999
  • So we say with confidence, 'the lord is my helper; i will not
  • 00:25:18.999 --> 00:25:24.438
  • Be afraid.
  • 00:25:24.438 --> 00:25:25.973
  • What can man do to me?'"
  • 00:25:25.973 --> 00:25:28.943
  • Hallelujah.
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  • Father, i pray that you will give us a spirit of courage
  • 00:25:30.277 --> 00:25:33.847
  • And boldness.
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  • Give us discernment to recognize the season and the opportunities
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  • You put before us.
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  • By your power, father, deliver us from every attack of
  • 00:25:41.522 --> 00:25:45.159
  • The enemy.
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  • Lift us above it.
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  • I thank you for your provision.
  • 00:25:48.028 --> 00:25:50.230
  • I thank you that you watch over us, that you guide us and direct
  • 00:25:50.230 --> 00:25:53.901
  • Us, that you secure our future, that you are our life and our
  • 00:25:53.901 --> 00:25:58.806
  • Strength, our strong tower, our hiding place, our rock.
  • 00:25:58.806 --> 00:26:03.577
  • We praise you, lord jesus, that in you we live and we move and
  • 00:26:03.577 --> 00:26:08.148
  • We have our being.
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  • For it's in your name we pray, amen.
  • 00:26:09.617 --> 00:26:13.520
  • Hallelujah, can you give the lord a hand?
  • 00:26:13.520 --> 00:26:15.522
  • [congregation cheering]
  • 00:26:15.522 --> 00:26:17.524
  • [music]
  • 00:26:17.524 --> 00:26:24.498
  • Allen: you know, around the world people are searching for
  • 00:26:24.565 --> 00:26:26.667
  • Truth, and together we're doing our very best to help them
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  • Find it.
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  • When you become a ministry partner with allen jackson
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  • Ministries, you're joining a growing community of believers
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  • Who are committed to strengthening the church and
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  • Sharing god's word through every available channel, television,
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  • Radio, podcast, books, bible studies, digital
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  • Resources, conferences.
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  • Your monthly partnership helps us equip believers, to reach new
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  • Audiences, and to take the hope of jesus to people who may never
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Together, we can stand firm in our faith and make god's truth
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  • Known right here at home and around the earth wherever god
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  • Opens the door.
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • The day our king returns.
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  • You can find more about becoming a ministry partner
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  • At allenjackson.com/partner.
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